RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

2013-01-19 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
Jim Hurley-2 wrote This is WAY off topic, but I don't know where else to turn. Google has failed me entirely. I need TWO levels of superscript in MS Word. X to the Y power to the Z power. Three levels of text: base level, superscript level, and super-duper script level. The easiest

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Richmond
On 01/18/2013 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html ~Roger It will be interesting to see if the Windows versions run under WINE 1.5.22.

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Richmond
On 01/18/2013 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html ~Roger Well Photoshop CS2 works OK under UbuntuStudio 12.10/WINE 1.5.21, although

Re: More about audio-video

2013-01-19 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi friends, Am 18.01.2013 um 21:51 schrieb Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com: Hi Stephen, Stephen Barncard-4 wrote VLC is also apple-scriptable. Some months ago, Klaus Major posted a message asking for developers interested in a VLC dll for LiveCode. What happened with this DLL?

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Warren Samples wrote: On 01/19/2013 12:47 AM, Warren Samples wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Apparently Kevin sent an email to one of the members of the Dev list clarifying the server changes - I trust he won't mind my taking the liberty of posting that here since it provides some very helpful info for those concerned about what had appeared to be the new policies for On-Rev:

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Here's an update to using the various methods of doing this. Alejandro: I couldn't get your method to work, the gif stayed at its original size. I think I did everything in your email Richmond: Online Image Editor, GifMagic, and gimp all worked fine. I also discovered by accident that

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Peter, Peter Haworth wrote Here's an update to using the various methods of doing this. Alejandro: I couldn't get your method to work, the gif stayed at its original size. I think I did everything in your email [snip] Did you locked the size and position of the empty image, before

Re: More about audio-video

2013-01-19 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Klaus, Klaus on-rev wrote Hi friends, What happened with this VLC DLL? Klaus? sorry, no news so far... Best, Klaus Well... VLC changed it's licensing to make possible that commercial applications, like LiveCode, contribute to the project... This change was motivated to match the

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Apologies Alejandro, I tried again and it worked. I must have missed something the first time around. This is the first time I have set the filename of an image. The filename is a full path to the image on my computer but that would be a non-existent file on someone else's computer. How do I

RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

2013-01-19 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Jim Hurley I'm not sure I know what you mean by manually raise it some number of points. I'm trying to do this within MS Word. I know it can be done. I have an example. I just can't find a way to duplicate it. I'm not on the latest Word, but in Word 2003 it's in Format-Font,

Re: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
As I said in another post any character can be set to a superscript height individually. It's in the character settings dialog. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone On Jan 19, 2013, at 12:18, Jim Hurley jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi Paul, I'm not sure I know

On-rev clarification

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
I got a response back from. On-rev support. The founders are still locked in to their 100gig of storage. The 50 gig is for new accounts. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone ___ use-livecode mailing list

screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
I've been trying out various screen capture software packages for OSX. A problem I'm experiencing with all of them is that animated gifs, well they are inanimate... they are ex-amimated gifs... they no longer animate!!! Any ideas what might be causing that or more helpfully if there is a way to

Re: screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Roger Eller
A static screen capture will not be animated. A video capture will, but it will be a movie file. ~Roger On Jan 19, 2013 7:54 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I've been trying out various screen capture software packages for OSX. A problem I'm experiencing with all of them is that

Re: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
I just did this under formatfont superscript, then change the vertical spacing in the spacing tab of the same dialog. BE CAREFUL! As you can easily begin to encroach on the baseline of the previous line, and I do not think that auto leading will account for this! Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at

Re: screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Sorry, should have been more specific, this is a movie. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: A static screen capture will not be animated. A video capture will, but it will be a movie file. ~Roger On Jan

Re: A string is a string is a string

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Need examples. If myVariable contained card one of this stack I should be able to say get the long id of myvariable This works when I test it. Without knowing specifics on what you variable *actually* contains and not what you *think* it contains, I'm afraid there isn't much more advice I

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
soap box What is 30% of nothing? They are willing to put up your app absolutely freely, if you like, so long as you don't charge for it. That's pretty generous. What they actually owe anyone in terms of what they allow is precisely jack diddly squat. It's their basketball hoop, their garage,

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Richard I don't know what you mean by synchronously. If you mean simultaneously while the LC engine goes on to do other things, this works asynchronously for me on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 5.5.3. I put this in a button: on mouseUp answer file Choose a word document: put it into theFile

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Richmond, do you have a modern OS X computer with plenty of memory? If so, I am very tempted to buy you a copy of Parallels. Virtually (pardon the pun) everything that only talks to Windows Drivers and not to the hardware directly will work in Parallels. Bob On Jan 19, 2013, at 4:27 AM,

Re: screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Roger Eller
Many screen recording softwares will capture a static screen and only track the movement of the cursor to save space. Have you tried QuickTime? Sent from my Pipo M2 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 5:35:48 PM, you wrote: Shouldn't have any control at all over what people put on their servers? Really?? You need to think again. Er...not exactly. You're forgetting the part about having only one place to go to install apps on a device, so Apple can tell you

[OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Sorry, I feel the need to vent, and maybe someone here has some advice they can give me when applying for jobs. First, I go to these job descriptions and see that they want someone with a bachelors in science, 5+ years experience, plus 3 or 4 advanced certifications, with experience in database

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 07:35 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: They are willing to put up your app absolutely freely, if you like, so long as you don't charge for it. That's pretty generous. What they actually owe anyone in terms of what they allow is precisely jack diddly squat. It's their basketball hoop,

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Sneidar wrote: Sorry, I feel the need to vent, and maybe someone here has some advice they can give me when applying for jobs. ... And then I see a line like this: Experience working with assembly languages such as HTML programming, MySQL, C, C , etc They're either high as a kite

Re: A string is a string is a string

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Cal Horner wrote: Using selectedObject I've extracted the long ID and the object name from the selected object. The name comes through as object type and Object Name. So programatically the code will know what kind of object I've selected and what it has been named when the time comes to use

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 08:04 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: erm... pardon me... HTML, mySQL and C are not, you know of course, assembly language... and assembly language is, of course, you know... not plural. It's very possible that this is a warning that you don't want the job, but it may be that your

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:17:49 PM, you wrote: Yes, apparently only on Ubuntu - or maybe even just my Ubuntu. I haven't heard back from other Ubuntu users, but Warren was kind enough to test on openSUSE and Mint and he sees the asynch behavior we see on OS X, which is what I've

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:10:56 PM, Richard wrote: They're either high as a kite or completely misrepresented the actual skill set they're looking for. Third possibility (maybe this is the misrepresented option)... too much cut and paste - somebody in HR has no idea what the jobs are

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
But there is no neighbor - it's Apple or nothing, that's the whole problem. Personally, I think it's only a matter of time before Apples gets sued over some sort of monopoly situation. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com wrote: Go to the next door neighbor's garage

Re: screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Yep, tried quicktime and it had the same problem. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Many screen recording softwares will capture a static screen and only track the movement of the cursor to save space. Have

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: And for the record, I see no problems on Fedora Core 16 xfce spin, Linux Mint 14 (LMDE or Unbuntu based). Thanks for checking, Mark. I've added that info to my report. Maybe it's just my machine? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting:

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Potts Jeff
When I was looking for a job back in the mid 90's I was at an interview where they wanted 2 years java experience. THe problem was Java was just getting out of beta and due to be released in a couple of months. I was stupefied. . . it was like my C++ experience wasn't good enough. I would have had

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:40:52 PM, you wrote: Maybe it's just my machine? Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? I *have* had the dictionary take ~two minutes to load at times for no apparent reason. Don't know if that's related or not. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:10:56 PM, Richard wrote: They're either high as a kite or completely misrepresented the actual skill set they're looking for. Third possibility (maybe this is the misrepresented

Re: screen capture software/animated gifs

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Haworth
I think maybe I should clarify this. The animated gifs work fine in my stack when no screen capture software is running. As soon as I start to record what's happening on the screen, they no longer animate. Nor do they animate when I playback the recording. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:40:52 PM, you wrote: Maybe it's just my machine? Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) I *have* had the dictionary take ~two minutes to load at times for no apparent reason. Don't know if

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/19/13 8:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 5:35:48 PM, you wrote: Shouldn't have any control at all over what people put on their servers? Really?? You need to think again. Er...not exactly. You're forgetting the part about having only one place to go to install

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:56:43 PM, you wrote: If thats the sort of place you want to work. .Jerry Well, sure. The trick is just to ignore HR afterwards. And some of the boilerplate descriptions are dreamed up by external agencies who have had the task of winnowing down the list of

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:00:19 PM, you wrote: Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) Back off, dude g ... I've got LMDE in Virtualbox on a Fedora base. Sheesh... who in their right mind would run a linux VM on a native Windows base? Linux with

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell through the Apple stores... ...yet. Sure, you can load software from anywhere else, but if you get it from the Big Bad Web you face a dire warning about how it may damage your computer. And the

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread As_Simon
mwieder wrote Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:10:56 PM, Richard wrote: They're either high as a kite or completely misrepresented the actual skill set they're looking for. Third possibility (maybe this is the misrepresented option)... A forth possibility is they already have a

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:01:03 PM, you wrote: I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell through the Apple stores. That's probably what keeps their system legit. For macs that's true, but I thought iOS devices were Apple store only. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 09:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell through the Apple stores. That's probably what keeps their system legit. I'm not a lawyer, but... (My father was, hehe) For all practical purposes, the market is closed and

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:00:19 PM, you wrote: Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) Back off, dude g ... I've got LMDE in Virtualbox on a Fedora base. Sheesh... who in their right mind would run a linux VM on a native

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Bob, I've pretty much stopped trying to help associates write job descriptions for tech jobs. For some reason friends and associates refer people to me when they are writing these and want some review. They send me things like what you mention and I ask what the job is and It can be as mundane

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/19/13 9:12 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:01:03 PM, you wrote: I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell through the Apple stores. That's probably what keeps their system legit. For macs that's true, but I thought iOS devices

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/19/13 9:16 PM, Warren Samples wrote: For all practical purposes, the market is closed and developers really do, as a practical observation, have to distribute through Apple in order to reach the platform. I think there will be third-party distributions for quite a while yet. Apple

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Thanks for the responses. At least I know my gut reaction to these job descriptions is justified. I think I'll ignore them. Except of course when they require a security clearance that is typically a hard fast limit. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone